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Meanwhile, her awareness of real-world politics and her sense that the court shouldn't diverge too sharply from popular opinion were especially apparent in O'Connor's death-penalty votes. In 1989 she wrote the majority opinion allowing capital punishment of the mentally retarded, saying a "national consensus" that the practice was wrong had not yet formed. But by 2002 she was convinced things had changed and voted with the majority to end it. It was just the kind of switch that made the court's more doctrinaire conservatives nuts: "Seldom has an opinion of this court rested...
DOES BUSH STILL NOT ACCEPT THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS...
Barreira described Travia as capable of both “building a consensus about what kinds of programs would be helpful and would work” and achieving “balance between education and policy and law and the use of other kinds of social activities to help students learn to drink in less destructive ways...
...Chief Justice in 1986. Rehnquist is a strict constructionist (he interprets the Constitution in very narrow terms) who leans conservative. Very much in favor of states' rights. Often speaks in terms of leaving issues up to the "people's branch in government," i.e., the legislature. Widely considered a skilled consensus-builder...
...patient, low-key man, Frankel (whose relations with Rosenthal are said to be cool) is expected to calm the newsroom waters. "Consensus is his middle name," says a colleague. His selection, Times watchers say, was a politic one for Publisher Sulzberger. "I think it turned on whom Punch knew best," says one Times executive, "and who would go down well with the rest of the stockholders in the family...